Photo diary: Inside 'Holot' detention center for asylum seekers

Photo diary: Inside ‘Holot’ detention center for asylum seekers

Volunteers from Physicians for Human Rights treat African asylum seekers at the mobile clinic at Holot detention centre, Negev, Isreal, on January 10, 2014. (photo: Yotam Ronen/Activestills.org)

Holot photo diary, day 43: Prison employment

Day 43 – (March 17, 2014) My employment notepad. We can work in maintenance inside Holot. They pay you 20 NIS for 6 hours, and you need to work for at least 10 days to get the money.

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The Dexamol capsules that my friend received, March 16, 2014. (Ahmad)

Holot photo diary, day 42: Nobody to take care of the sick

Day 42 – (March 16, 2014) Yesterday evening one guy in our room wasn’t feeling well. I went to talk with gate prison and told him about it. He answered that it is not his responsibility. After I showed him to the room I asked to call the doctor. He allowed us to go to the…

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The line for our allowance, March 15, 2014. (Ahmad)

Holot photo diary, day 42: Receiving our allowance

Day 42 – (March 15, 2014) These are the two lines in which we are standing to receive an allowance. We have to wait long hours in order to receive 160 shekels.

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Taking a walk 'outside,' March 14, 2014. (Ahmad)

Holot photo diary, day 41: Fenced in, wherever you go

Day 41 – (March 14, 2014)

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African asylum seekers held in the Holot detention center play outside as asylum seekers living in Tel Aviv and Israeli activists held a solidarity visit, January 25, 2014. (photo: Oren Ziv/Activestills.org)

Holot photo diary, day 39: Prison leisure

Day 39 – (March 12, 2014) Click here for Ahmad’s full photo diary from Holot

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My breakfast, March 10, 2014. (Ahmad)

Holot photo diary, day 37: Breakfast is served

Day 37 – (March 10, 2014)

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A view of the gate. (Ahmad)

Holot photo diary, day 36: Living in close quarters

Day 36 – (March 9, 2014) We stay 10 people in one room. Going up and down our beds all day. One shower and toilet for all of us.

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My friend was sick and got this from the small room that they call a clinic, Holot, February 24, 2014. (Ahmad)

Holot photo diary, day 21-26: Easing the pain

Day 21 – Day 26 (February 22 – February 27, 2014) Notes: My friend was sick and got these painkillers. Right after he took them he got even sicker, in his stomach too. We were all awake at night because he wasn’t feeling well. Nobody in Holot cares about you when you don’t feel well,…

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Bunk bed in Holot. (photo: Ahmad)

Holot photo diary, day 8: Bunk beds and half lunches

Day 8, (Monday, February 9, 2014)

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"Lunch" at Holot, Fifth day, February 5, 2014. (Ahmad)

Holot photo diary, day 4: Prison lunch

Day 4 (Wednesday, February 5, 2014)

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My friend singing a freedom song, February 4, 2014. (Ahmad)

Holot photo diary, day 3: Singing for our freedom

Day 3 (Tuesday, February 4, 2014) “My friend from Darfur was singing a song on the Long Walk for Freedom, to strengthen us. The situation here is very bad.” Click here for Ahmad’s full photo diary from Holot

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Cooking on the ground outside Holot, Second day, February 3, 2014. (Ahmad)

Holot photo diary, day 2: Fending for ourselves

Day 2 (Monday, February 3, 2014): Click here for Ahmad’s full photo diary from Holot

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"Lunch" at Holot, First day, February 2, 2014. (Ahmad)

Holot photo diary, day 1: ‘This is a real prison’

Day 1 (Sunday, February 2, 2014): “We arrived at Holot. This doesn’t feel like an open camp at all, this is a real prison. They say it’s not true, that I’m free as a newborn, but this is not the case.” Click here for Ahmad’s full photo diary from Holot

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